Sentences with phrase «such cultural adaptations»

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However, although religion did not originally emerge as a biological adaptation, it can play a role in both facilitating and stabilizing cooperation within groups, and as such, could be the target of cultural selection.»

The goal, or at least the effect, of such image adaptations of the Christian faith to the culture is to erase the distinctions between the Christian message and the cultural environment.

Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.

The two Levantine populations are impossible to distinguish from their cultural remains alone, although Neanderthals have special anatomical adaptations for withstanding severe cold, such as stocky, well - muscled bodies and large noses.

Humans are tropical primates that require cultural adaptations to survive northerly latitudes, and hence, to have arrived in the Americas, capabilities such as control of fire, killing large mammals, hide working, tailoring clothing, sewing, and construction of shelters, all archaeologically demonstrable in the middle Pleistocene, are seen as components of arctic adaptation and prerequisite to peopling of Siberia and Beringia.

The writer - director of such witty cultural sendups as Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco talks about that early - career trilogy; his new Jane Austen adaptation, Love and Friendship; and the filmmaker's work of capturing the past.

E) Adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as those which develop large infrastructure or the resettle communities against their will to reduce exposure to climate change, carry risks of disrupted livelihoods, displaced populations, deterioration of valued cultural expressions and practices, and in some cases violent conflict.

Supporting the notion of cultural traits as evolutionary adaptations, recent cross-national evidence shows that cultural values of individualism and collectivism serve an adaptive, «anti-pathogen» function, protecting vulnerable geographical regions from increased spread of disease - causing pathogens via the promotion of collectivistic social norms, such as conformity and parochialism (Fincher et al. 2008).

Tribal MIECHV grantees are moving the field of home visiting forward by assessing the impact of models with unique populations, examining the implementation and effectiveness of model adaptations and enhancements aimed at strengthening cultural relevance, and measuring untested outcomes for home visiting such as cultural knowledge, connection and practice.

We welcome suggestions on cultural adaptations, more scripts, missing pieces, etc. and your thoughts on how relevant this toolkit is to other areas of home visiting such as depression screening.

The impacts of such a move on the land rights and cultural rights of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, is a serious issue that the government must factor in to its decision making on climate change adaptation.